[Dev-flock] for/against arguments

Lucy R Mendel lmendel at MIT.EDU
Sun Oct 7 18:45:07 EDT 2007


We've had some informal discussion about marking arguments as for or 
against the behavior. This would be marked by the author. In terms of 
evaluations we thought to allow evaluators to mark why an argument 
got a thumbs up or thumbs down. eg, not objective, faulty logic, false 
premiss, irrelevant, biased source. For now, users have to write 
responding arguments to a thread to say the why, but then they can only 
write arguments in that particular thread.

The why is useful in three ways: 1. to the argument writer to understand 
their thumb up/thumb downs, which effects status points; 2. to other 
readers of the argument trying to make votes based  on th arguments; 3. 
analytics.  If 1. is important we can allow evaluators to write comments 
that are only readable by the argument's writer (this prevents people from 
getting around the one argument per thread by writing comments everywhere 
else). If 2. is important-- well shoot; write a responding argument! get 
involved in that thread! (but what if they already wrote an argument 
elsewhere? well if it's a good argument it'll be The Thread that gets read 
anyway.) If 3. is important we might was to make actual checkboxes for the 
why's to make accumulating this data easier.. instead of grepping comments 
for 'bias' 'source' etc.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 04:22:40 +0000
From: Mike Eggar <eggar at hotmail.com>
To: lmendel at MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [Dev-flock] r255 - in huginmunin/trunk/web/src/web_app/Main: .
     media templates views

thanks for clearing that up for me.  The "for/against" thing I can put in, but 
there's nothing in the database yet to store it I dont think.  I'll add the 
for/against selection, although I think parsing the argument for 
profanity/praise might be more accurate.

Mike


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> only behaviors are rated (assigned a vote 1-9)... though maybe the api 
> permits arguments to be rated eventually. a user can choose to either rate a 
> product OR write an argument. a user can write many arguments, but only on 
> one thread. users can only vote once. users can allocate a feather to take a 
> second action, eg voting after writing an argument or writing arguments on a 
> different thread. a thread is started by attaching an argument to a behavior. 
> arguments attached to that first argument (and subsequent arguments in that 
> discussion) form the thread.
> 
> nothing should be anonymous. i think auth/auth is working in Prototype, 
> though it's not used there except on a test page.
> 
> On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Mike Eggar wrote:
> 
>> thanks,
>> also, got some questions about rating behaviors:
>> do you have to post a new argument to add a rating, or can you just rate the 
>> argument,
>> do you have to be logged in to rate it or is anon rating ok,
>> and can a user rate it more than once
>> 
>> Mike
>> 
>> 
>>> From: Lucy R Mendel <lmendel at mit.edu>
>>> To: Mike Eggar <eggar at thoughtandmemory.org>
>>> CC: dev-flock at mit.edu
>>> Subject: Re: [Dev-flock] r255 - in huginmunin/trunk/web/src/web_app/Main: . 
>>> media templates views
>>> Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 22:29:52 -0400 (EDT)
>>> 
>>> word.
>>> 
>>> I'll have a look at the save() issue.
>>> 
>>> On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Mike Eggar wrote:
>>> 
>>> > added 'add argument' link to each behavior, opens a form, submitting the 
>>> form creates a new argument in views.add_new_argument_to_behavior
>>> >
>>> > save() still isnt working, not sure if its a permissions problem or bug
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Modified:
>>> >   huginmunin/trunk/web/src/web_app/Main/media/main.js
>>> >   huginmunin/trunk/web/src/web_app/Main/media/stylesheet.css
>>> >   huginmunin/trunk/web/src/web_app/Main/templates/main.html
>>> >   huginmunin/trunk/web/src/web_app/Main/urls.py
>>> >   huginmunin/trunk/web/src/web_app/Main/views/views.py
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